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Paulino Viota is a self-taught filmmaker who has made all his films virtually against the Spanish film industry. In his day, Viota was ignored but, with the passing of time, his work became one of the most interesting film projects of the last years of Franco era and the transition to democracy.

A four-disc DVD box set contains the complete works of Paulino Viota, whose singular Contactos (1970) was considered one of the most important films of the 1970s by the critic and filmmaker Noel Burch. The other feature-length films are Con unas y dientes (1978) and Cuerpo a cuerpo (1982). Viota refers to Con unas y dientes as the first Spanish film since the Civil War to deal with the class struggle. It is formally more conventional and didactic than Contactos, but its narrative focus shares the perspective of labor militants in opposition to combined state and corporate power. Cuerpo a cuerpo, Viota’s last feature to date, ties together several stories about the loss of youth, and employs footage filmed in two stages, fourteen years apart. Its characters had come of age in the last years of the dictatorship only to find themselves alienated, their hopes and youth gone, after the long-awaited return to democracy.

4 x DVD9 | PAL | 278 minutes | 27.1 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Espanol
Subtitles: English, Francais
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Experimental, Short

DVD 1
-- Las ferias 1966
-- Jose Luis 1966
-- Tiempo de busca 1967
-- Fin de un invierno 1968

DVD 2
-- Contactos 1970
-- Duracion 1970
Extras:
-- Presentacion de Paulino Viota en Filmoteca Espanola
-- Paulino Viota y Santos Zunzunegui ante el publico
-- Ozu y Contactos. Simetrias (Maria Asenjo, 2013)

DVD 3
-- Jaula de todos 1974
-- Con unas y dientes 1977-78
Extras:
-- Presentacion de Con unas y dientes por Javier Vega
-- Conversacion con Javier Vega

DVD 4
-- Cuerpo a cuerpo 1982
Extras:
-- Conversacion con Guadalupe G. Guemes
-- Presentacion de Rio Grande por Paulino Viota